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Re: [Help] Problems with Encoders and PID Control

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
Time to get out the voltmeter.
How would you use the voltmeter to tell whats wrong with the encoder? Just to see that it is indeed getting power and common? The pulses on the output channels will probably be much too fast to be read without an oscilliscope, unless the encoder has really low resolution I suppose. Carry on.